Ellipses vs. Spheres

by Zen Punkist (Eva David)

The singular eye in the pyramid controlling a bi-ocular society maybe the cause of our planetary dis-ease.  I think of the monocle wearing monopolist.  One might argue we have three eyes if you include the pineal gland.  I'd like to focus on the two as the foci of our elliptical nature.  

If our nature is elliptical, one focal point could be all the memory, archetypes, and establishments that have already been created; the other focal point could be all the possibilities that are available to us.  Our universe could be the ellipse that is determined by the interaction and growing distance between these two focal points.  So instead of being in a closed spherical system that has a net energy, our universe could expand and contract based on the interacting and processing the conscious participates in between the two foci.  

This is why I think the Maybe Logic Academy & Forums are so valuable to the expansion of existence as we know it.  The interacting and processing that goes on here illustrates the elasticity of reality.  As we bounce ideas & references off each other from across the world, the possibilities we conceive of grow exponentially.  The connectivity we create as individuals portrays the marginalized mentality that mass media sweeps under the rug.  Our personal interactions give us more insight into the psychology of our species, which makes us less dependent on media to tell us what everybody else is thinking.  The less we're dependent on any big-money-owned source for information, the more entropy we create, and the farther our universe (dare I say multiverse) extends.

Upon first reading the Principia Discordia, it seemed more something remembered than newly encountered.  It could have been because of all the references to it in The Illuminatus Trilogy. Ever since I could remember, the type of logic discussed by those two playful minds in that bowling alley has been inherent to me.  Every time I went to a new bathroom - I studied the patterns that would appear to me in the tiles on the floor. I felt so incredibly comfortable in disorder --- that no matter how good I tried to be --- and I really tried --- I was constantly disaster-prone in convenient places.  I totally identify with The Individual that subconsciously sabotages the surrounding systems that just never seemed to make sense. I can't explain it --- when I first read it, I felt like I had wrote it.  Discordia is the most accurate description of my truest nature . . . it is home to me.